Deaths lead to safety works at bus station

A major €1.5m road and pedestrian safety upgrade is set to begin on the roads around Cork’s main bus station where two pedestrians have been killed in the last year.

Cork City Council has published details of the Part 8 planning process outlining the Parnell Place renewal project, and has invited submissions from the public.

An inquest last August into the death of an elderly lady who was crushed by a bus on Parnell Place in Oct 2011 heard that the design of the roads around the bus station played a role in her death.